grove
要点小さい森、林
意味
- 小さい森(林),木立ち
例文
Pandas live in bamboo groves.
パンダは竹林に住んでるんだよ。
The spacious plain spread as far as the eye can see, dotted with groves here and there.
見渡す限り広々とした草原で、ところどころに小さな森があった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove; copse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graib, *graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *graibaz, *graibô (“branch, fork”). Related to Old English grǣf, grǣfe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”), Old English grǣfa (“thicket”), dialectal Norwegian greive (“ram with splayed horns”), dialectal Norwegian greivlar (“ramifications of an antler”), dialectal Norwegian grivla (“to branch, branch out”), Old Norse grein (“twig, branch, limb”). More at greave.